What evil enunciates in the world.

Alongside with the emergence around us in Nature of reason,
harmony and beauty, we also see the appearance of a contraposition. We observe
frightening catastrophes in Nature, which inflict suffering and death to living
matter, we watch the blindness and deceitfulness of
instinct in the animal kingdom; hostility, the devouring of the weak by the
strong, and finally, illness and death. These manifestations open our eyes to
Natureís true character, and they do not permit us to deify it. Thanks to them,
we recognize the falsity of pantheism. It is inherent for a person to seek a
higher beginning and worship it. However, although he sees the presence and
activity of this beginning all around himself, Nature itself cannot be taken as
that higher beginning: it possesses the positive and the negative,
it has reason and irrationality, good and evil. By this, Nature itself suggests
to us that there is another Beginning above it that is perfect and complete.
And how can we acknowledge the deity of Nature when man himself becomes its
master? The poet Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy expressed the duality of
Nature ó good and evil ó in artistic form: